Reclaiming Integration and the Language of Race in the "Post-Racial" Era

Herausgeber: Ivery, Curtis L.; Bassett, Joshua

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is divided into two major sections: (1) "Reclaiming Integration"; (2) "Reclaiming the Language of Race." Both sections are located in the context of the "post-racial" era and analyzed by nationally renowned scholars in various dimensions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781475815191
• ISBN-10: 1475815190
• Artikelnr.: 42556765

Autorenporträt

Dr. Curtis L. Ivery is a nationally renowned leader in U.S. urban affairs. He is the author of numerous books on urban issues and was the first African-American appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Governor's Cabinet in the state of Arkansas as the Commissioner for the Department of Health and Human Services. He has written extensively for newspapers and magazines and has conceived several nationally acclaimed conferences focusing on key issues of urban inequality and social justice. This is the second and completing volume to his past work, America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics (Rowman&Littlefield, 2011). Joshua A. Bassett is Director of the Institute for Social Progress (ISP), a nationally affiliated urban studies and educational institute located at Wayne County Community College District in Detroit, Michigan. He served as executive director of the "Educational Summit: Detroit and the Crisis in Urban America Conference" (broadcast nationally on C-Span network). His past work includes, America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics: Education, Incarceration, Segregation and the Future of U.S. Multiracial Democracy, (Rowman&Littlefield, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword-Eddie Glaude, Jr.
Preface -Curtis L. Ivery
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction and Theoretical Overview
Curtis L. Ivery and Joshua A. Bassett
CHAPTER TWO: Are We Colorblind? A View from the Neighborhood
Maria Krysan, Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at
Chicago and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs
CHAPTER THREE: A Different Story: Race, Politics, and Radical Change
Eddie Glaude, Jr., William S. Tod, Professor of Religion and African
American Studies, Department of Religion, and Chair, Center for African
American Studies at Princeton University
CHAPTER FOUR: The 1 Percent Needs Race to Rule
Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology; Founder and Director of the
University of California Center for New Racial Studies (UCCNRS) at
University of California, Santa Barbara
CHAPTER FIVE: America's Struggle with Integration: The Continued Struggle
for its Soul
John Powell, Professor of Law; Professor of African American Studies and
Ethnic Studies; Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion;
Director, Haas Diversity Research Center (HDRC)
CHAPTER SIX: Moving Beyond Race Fatigue: Challenging Hidden Bias, Getting
Serious
About Our Racial Future
Andrew Grant Thomas, Director of Programs, Proteus Fund
CHAPTER SEVEN:A Personal Reflection: The Battle for Diversity on Campus:
The Supreme Court, Civil Rights Research and Affirmative Action in the 21st
Century
Gary Orfield, Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban
Planning; Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles
at the University of California, Los Angeles
CHAPTER EIGHT: School integration in the post-"Parents Involved" Era
Erica Frankenberg, Assistant Professor in the Department of Education
Policy Studies in the College of Education at the Pennsylvania State
University
CHAPTER NINE: The Future of Detroit: How the City Got to Where It Is Now
and What is Next
Reynolds Farley, Otis Dudley Duncan Professor of Sociology, Emeritus;
Research Scientist, Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan
CHAPTER TEN: Racial Disparities in Economic Well-Being in the Detroit
Metropolitan Area after the Great Recession
Lucie Kalousova, doctoral candidate in Sociology and Health Policy and a
trainee in population studies at the University of Michigan; and Sheldon
Danziger, President,
The Russell Sage Foundation; Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University
Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at
the University of Michigan
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Integration and Equal Educational Opportunity in the
"Post-Racial" Era
Robert A. Sedler, Distinguished Professor of Law, Wayne State University
Integration Resources